Elden Ring Soft Caps For Character Stats and Charts Explained

Here is our guide explaining soft caps inElden Ring, with a chart for each of the character stats.

Soft and hard stats caps in Elden Ring explained

Your playable character inElden Ringhas 8 stats you can raise: Vigor, Mind, Endurance, Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Faith, and Arcane.

Just like most if not everySoulsgame by FromSoftware,Elden Ringhas soft and hard caps for stats. If you’re not an RPG player, “hard cap” is the maximum limit a character stat can reach. When you reach that limit, you can’t increase the stat anymore. However, each parameter can also have one or several soft caps.

Here’s what are soft caps in RPGs and Elden Ring

The soft cap refers to the point where while you can still keep increasing a stat to reach the hard cap, the effects of doing so will be diminished, and not be worth the cost. So you shouldn’t increase that stat anymore if you plan to optimize your character and Runes spending as much as possible.

You can get a rough idea of what the soft cap for a stat is as you level it up. Le’s take the Vigor stat as an example. When leveling, you should keep an eye on how much your HP increases by each increment of the Vigor stat. At some point, your HP won’t increase as much. This means you’ve reached the first Vigor soft cap for your character’s class. At some point, the HP will increase even less, which means it’s yet another soft cap.

Soft cap chart for each stat on your character (March 2022 update)

It took several weeks after the release ofElden Ringfor thecommunityto experiment and figure out the actual soft caps numbers for each stat. Special thanks most notably to u/AshuraRC and u/sleepless_sheeple.

Last but not least, I personally recommend not worrying too much about soft caps especially if it’s your first run and your firstSoulsgame.There are ways to reset your stats and respec inElden Ringtoo, so you can always try to better optimize during endgame and post-game. Savor your adventure and by the time you reach the endgame, you’ll be able to carefully plan and min-max after resetting your stats.